Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.

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Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash_(architect)


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In 1781 Nash instigated action against Jane for separation on grounds of adultery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery


Anne Boleyn was found guilty of adultery and treason and executed in 1536. There is controversy among historians as to whether she had actually committed adultery.

[Gleb Gamow]

Furthermore, Deuteronomic code prescribes stoning not only for female extramarital sex, but also for female premarital sex in the case where the woman lies about her virginity:

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, … and say, / I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid. / … But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: / Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning


Du'a Khalil Aswad was stoned to death in Iraq

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Amnesty International later learned that the girl was in fact 13 years old and had been arrested by al-Shabab militia after she had reported being gang-raped by three men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International


The Amnesty Canadian headquarters in Ottawa.

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The organisation was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its "campaign against torture," and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1978.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize


The 14th Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureates

[Gleb Gamow]

From 1901 to 1904, the ceremony took place in the Storting (Parliament)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storting_building


The proposal by Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno that won the 1856 competition, but was finally rejected by the Storting.

[Gleb Gamow]

The building is built in yellow brick with details and basement in light gray granite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite


The Cheesewring, a granite tor on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall

[notbatman]

Fractional crystallisation serves to reduce a melt in iron, magnesium, titanium, calcium and sodium, and enrich the melt in potassium and silicon – alkali feldspar (rich in potassium) and quartz (SiO2), are two of the defining constituents of granite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon



Spectral lines of silicon

[notbatman]

Silica is often deposited in plant tissues, such as in the bark and wood of Chrysobalanaceae and the silica cells and silicified trichomes of Cannabis sativa, horsetails and many grasses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa


The flower of a hybrid Cannabis indica plant

[Gleb Gamow]

Granitoids are a ubiquitous component of the crust. They have crystallized from magmas that have compositions at or near a eutectic point (or a temperature minimum on a cotectic curve). Magmas will evolve to the eutectic because of igneous differentiation, or because they represent low degrees of partial melting. Fractional crystallisation serves to reduce a melt in iron, magnesium, titanium, calcium and sodium, and enrich the melt in potassium and silicon – alkali feldspar (rich in potassium) and quartz (SiO2), are two of the defining constituents of granite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon



Spectral lines of silicon

Silicon is an essential element in biology, although only tiny traces of it appear to be required by animals. However, various sea sponges as well as microorganisms like diatoms and radiolaria secrete skeletal structures made of silica. Silica is often deposited in plant tissues, such as in the bark and wood of Chrysobalanaceae and the silica cells and silicified trichomes of Cannabis sativa, horsetails and many grasses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa


The flower of a hybrid Cannabis indica plant

With the exception of quoting more than one sentencing, thanks for the otherwise excellent contributions, notbatman. Nice leapfrogging as well: Granite --> Weed. 

Cannabis strains with relatively high CBD:THC ratios are less likely to induce anxiety than vice versa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety


A marble bust of the Roman Emperor Decius from the Capitoline Museum. This portrait "conveys an impression of anxiety and weariness, as of a man shouldering heavy [state] responsibilities".

[Gleb Gamow]

The theologian Paul Tillich characterized existential anxiety as "the state in which a being is aware of its possible nonbeing" and he listed three categories for the nonbeing and resulting anxiety: ontic (fate and death), moral (guilt and condemnation), and spiritual (emptiness and meaninglessness).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology


Augustine of Hippo (354–430), Latin theologian. His writing on free will and original sin remains influential in Western Christendom.

[Gleb Gamow]

Christian theology’s preeminent place in the university began to be challenged during the European Enlightenment, especially in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment


French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650)

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Frederick the Great (1712–86), the king of Prussia 1740–1786, saw himself as a leader of the Enlightenment and patronized philosophers and scientists at his court in Berlin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia


Prussian King's Crown (Hohenzollern Castle Collection)

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The main coat of arms of Prussia, as well as the flag of Prussia, depicted a black eagle on a white background.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_eagle


Purple-faced leaf monkey juvenile attacked by a Black eagle and dead

[Gleb Gamow]

The Indian giant squirrel has been noted as a prey of this species and young bonnet macaques may also fall prey to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_giant_squirrel


Photograph of Ratufa indicus, taken in the Malabar Region of southwest India.

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The underparts and the front legs are usually cream colored, the head can be brown or beige, however there is a distinctive white spot between the ears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige


A "beige" AT&T telephone.

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Cosmic latte is a name assigned in 2002 to the average color of the universe (derived from a sampling of the electromagnetic radiation from 200,000 galaxies), given by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer


The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1668)

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An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as black holes, moons, planets, stars, asteroids, comets, nebulae and galaxies, as well as Gamma-ray bursts and cosmic microwave background radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst


Artist's illustration of a bright gamma-ray burst occurring in a star-forming region. Energy from the explosion is beamed into two narrow, oppositely directed jets.

[Gleb Gamow]

Depending on its distance from Earth, a GRB and its ultraviolet radiation could damage even the most radiation resistant organism known, the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans


A tetrad of D. radiodurans

[Gleb Gamow]

It can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and acid, and is therefore known as a polyextremophile and has been listed as the world's toughest bacterium in The Guinness Book Of World Records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records


Lucky Diamond Rich is "the world's most tattooed person", and has tattoos covering his entire body. He holds the Guinness world record as of 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.